Piako Tahi 2020

Thursday, June 11, 2020

Piako Tahi Super Stars!

Last Friday we had a lot of Super Star Kids in Piako Tahi! Our Super Stars received a Special Certificate to celebrate their achievements with the rest of their peers. This is a special time during Hui Whanau where the kids are able to shine and feel proud of themselves.

Well done Semi, Hudson, Felix, Miwa, Avery, Milana, Charlie and Teityn!!

Thursday, June 4, 2020

Pokemon Explore!

This week in Explore we have been learning about Pokemon! We know that sounds like something we wouldn't normally learn about at school, but we thought it was a fun opportunity for us to develop some of our Key Competency skills (such as sharing, taking turns, being creative). We have loved getting creative and inventing new creatures. We have also continued practising our sharing skills and Mrs Hobbs is pretty impressed with how well we have been sharing with each other!

Check out some of what we have been up to this week:

Aurora worked hard to 'catch' the Pokemon with the same letter as her Pokeball

Cameron, Luca W, Tane, Hudson and Jack got very creative coming up with ideas for and then building new Pokemon

Cameron loved using the mobilo to build Pokemon!

Ayla and Nina practised turn taking skills by playing the 'memory' game

Semi used creative thinking skills to add more to his Pokemon to give it even more detail

Mila made a Pokeball and Darcie made a Pikachu puppet. Then they worked together and practised trying to catch Pikachu in Mila's Pokeball!

Charlie thought creatively to come up with a sheep/cheese Pokemon called 'Cheesy'. He even said Cheesy's powers were to pull animals out of the ocean and put them in the right place!

Maia and Ella got creative and made some Pokemon Handbags! They had to think carefully about how to make them with limited resources

Ryan made a Pokemon Museum! He even put a chair in it for a person to make Pokemon for the museum

Ava and Jack had a great time discussing the different Pokemon

Jamie did a puppet show with his Pikachu that he made

Nina created a Pikachu Pokemon card! She worked hard to draw, colour and cut her card

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Fairytale Explore!

So many of us have been loving story time and the dress ups, so we decided to learn a bit more about Fairytales during Explore!

Since being back at school, we have found sharing the class toys and taking turns a bit difficult - we got used to not having so many other children to share with! So during Fairytale Explore we worked hard to practise sharing and taking turns.

Check out some of the photos of us in action:

Zach T, Shelby and Elijah worked so hard to share the dinosaurs (dragons) and build a castle together

Ella and Maia had great fun practising their drama skills and acting like princesses!

Teityn used the rods and balls to make a house for his big bad wolf!

Nina got creative while making her wand, and loved using it to cast spells!

There was lots of 'Abra cadrabra!' happening in Piako Tahi this week

Tanya, Milana, Zac P, Jamie, Charlie, Luca B and Ella getting creative to make magical fairytale wands

Charlie was very proud of his wand and used it's magic to help him find his way out of the beanstalk maze!

Kupa and Levi were SO focused to help Jack find his way up the beanstalk maze

Miwa and Courtney were great at sharing the Elsa dress!

Ethan and Kenta had to carefully measure their crowns to make them fit on their heads - they were so proud of their King crowns!

Toby, Teityn and Ethan worked together to build a castle for the dragons to protect. They practised turn taking and compromising to build their castle!

Felix and Ryan had a great time building on each others ideas to make a home for their dragons

Our WOW Wall this week was full of creative crafts - well done to everyone that made it on to the WOW wall!

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Piako Time!

Welcome back to school!!!!

We are all SO excited to be back and have been having such a great time learning and catching up with our friends. Lots of us said the biggest thing we missed during our time at home was playing with our friends from school.

In the afternoons we have been having Piako Time which is time where we can use the classroom equipment to play and practise our social skills with others. Check out some of the fun we have been having!